Antigone is the main character in the tragic play that is looking for her independence. Her main quest for independence is to bury her brother. "Ismene, I am going to bury him."(pg 492, line 31) She wants independence form the law. The law says she mustn't give her brother a proper burial, but Antigone believes that her brother deserves the burial. Antigone basically does what she feels is right not what anyone else thinks, and this …
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…law and losing her independence. "I do. I do deny nothing."(Pg502, line52) Creon sends her to eternity in a locked vault as punishment. Antigone in an attempt not to succumb to Creon and not to lose her independence kills herself as we learn form the messenger. "She had made a noose of her fine linen veil and hanged herself."(pg521, line59-60) Antigone didn't want to lose her independence so she died with it.